Country Kitchen is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1982. Commercial.
Country Kitchen
- WRENN ID
- still-moat-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 December 1982
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- Country Kitchen, 29, Swain Street, Watchet
- OS grid reference
- ST 070 433
- Coordinates
- 51.18217, -3.33067
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Country Kitchen is a building located on Swain Street, likely dating from the late 17th century with some later alterations. It features a stone front with roughcast render and is topped with Bridgwater patent roof tiles. The building is two stories high and has a four-window front, with casements that include transoms, mullions, and lead lights. The central doorway has a recessed, panelled door flanked by two small square lights. There is a modern shop front on the left-hand side.
Local climate
Country Kitchen receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
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